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  <session>
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    <title>May The Silverlight 4’s Be With You with Richard Costall</title>
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      <speaker>
        <name>Richard Costall</name>
        <info>Richard Costall (MVP, MCSD.NET) has over 22 years development experience and works for 1st Software, a Microsoft Gold Partner, and the UK's leading software solution for Financial Adviser and Intermediaries, designing and implementing IFA applications in the financial services sector. Previously specializing in VB, XML/XSLT, COM, ASP and MSMQ, Richard now lives and breathes the awesome world of .Net and in particular Silverlight. Richard spent 5 1/2 years as the Midlands regional coordinator for VBUG (Visual Basic User Group) before co-founding NxtGenUG, the innovative UK user group for Microsoft Technologies.

Richard has written articles for publications such as ASP.NET Pro and International Developer Magazines and also co-authered the Apress title Professional MSMQ. He speaks a local user groups, Microsoft Conferences/Product launches, TechED Europe and the hugely successful DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper Events.

When not in .Net land, Richard enjoys relaxing at home with his wife and two sons, playing on the XBOX 360 or ultimately jetting off to Walt Disney World, Florida, for a trip on the Tower of Terror.</info>
      </speaker>
    </speakers>
    <time>18:30 - 21:00</time>
    <date>5th July 2010</date>
    <track>1</track>
    <description>Because Silverlight has grown up and now it is difficult to choose between Silverlight and WPF even for desktop apps let alone between Silverlight and ASP.NET for web apps. Also because Richard is one half of the Chuckle Brothers (our insurance wouldn't cover us to have an appearance from Dave McMahon at the same time) - you may laugh, you may chuckle but you will surely learn cool stuff about Silverlight.</description>
  </session>
  <session>
    <id>6e7e2234-7c3b-42c8-bf37-1b65166f661a</id>
    <title>A Guided Tour of the Managed Extensibility Framework (MEF) in Silverlight 4 with Mike Taulty</title>
    <speakers>
      <speaker>
        <name>Mike Taulty</name>
        <info>Mike Taulty works in the Developer and Platform Group at Microsoft in the UK where he has spent the past few years helping developers understand and get the best from the Microsoft platform. Prior to this, Mike spent 3 years with Microsoft Consulting Services as a consultant on developer technologies.

Before joining Microsoft, Mike spent the previous 9 years working as a software developer for a number of enterprises, consultancies and software vendors working with a variety of operating system, client, communication and server technologies. You can find more of a complete career history over on LinkedIn.

Mike holds a BSc Hons (1st Class) in Computer Science from the University of Leeds.</info>
      </speaker>
    </speakers>
    <time>18:30 - 21:00</time>
    <date>2nd June 2010</date>
    <track>1</track>
    <description>Because MEF is one technology that pervades all .NET development - you need to be aware of this as one of the possible choices for your solution. Also because Mike is brilliant. I mean honestly you should come to this one if only to study a master of presentation skills.

How do I sign up for this meeting: Log in to the site, go to the Meetings page and on the top right hand side you will see a box "Register For A Meeting". Select the month in the drop down and then click on the Register link.

Abstract:
Silverlight 4 has a new framework that can help in building loosely-coupled and extensible applications – the Managed Extensibility Framework or MEF. MEF’s key ability is to flexibly compose an application out of a set of component parts that describe the functionality they expose and the functionality that they depend upon. MEF has the ability to discover components without the need for up-front registration and is extensible in many, many ways. In this session we’ll do a tour around MEF to look at what it does for you, how it does it and how you can use and extend it in your own Silverlight applications.</description>
  </session>
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